Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Study does have concrete results in indicating what makes various undergraduates tick, it does not mean that the College will further regulate the student's life. Rather the Dean's Office will be in a position to suggest a definite course of action for each individual which will make the most of his potentialities as indicated by the Study. For it is hoped eventually all incoming Freshmen will be thus tested...
...unusual amount of modern music, much of it of very recent composition, has been played here this season, and many people have been surprised to see that a rather marked tendency toward romanticism and lyricism seems to be succeeding the hard-boiled harshness of a few years...
...sketches, which continue the story in this rather laughable fashion, exhibit strong powers of social satire and characterization. Though Ober-laender lacks much that can be found in Daumier, this small sample of his work is convincing enough to make anyone who sees it want to see more. Humor in art presents difficulties which are not easy to surmount. A ludicrous subject, if not sufficiently restrained by means of proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles...
...bloodshed, lust, and intensity of passion which characterizes war. His bright colors shed a distasteful but highly effective glow, and the physical gyrations of his men serve to heighten the wild and futile nature of armed conflict. Grosz never minces words; he seldom argues; but in a sweeping and rather dictatorial way, he hammers his point home...
Bearing the same title as the lectures, the book, published by the Macmillan Company, is subtitled "An Economic Theory About Our Golden Age." The theory is chiefly that American farmers made their profits, while they made them, from the increase in land values rather than from farming itself, but White deals with the culture and ideals of the West as much as with economic theory...